As monday rounds up, let's close tabs and walk through what I've been reading (again): Alex Bores is introducing (modified) SB1047 in NY! bit.ly/4hfFVR9 Not to brag, but I told him to do this months ago: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/NY-S...
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I've been worried that AI capabilities evals aren't sufficiently useful to policymakers lately, and that worry has been fueled by some of these excellent pieces: { Anton Lecht, on political economy problems for AI evals (www.antonleicht.me/writing/evals),
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Zvi quoting Jeffrey Ladishon model evals as lower bounds (thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-94-not-...), Zhengdong Wang's 2024 letter — ctrl-F "Today, “better” is vaguer and slower to get than ever before" for the good stuff, I'm now MMLU blackpilled (zhengdongwang.com/2024/12/29/2...)
Gwern on benchmarking creativity (gwern.net/creative-ben...), Holden Karnofsky on tripwires (carnegieendowment.org/research/202..., carnegieendowment.org/research/202...), UK AISI evals lessons (www.aisi.gov.uk/work/early-l...), AI LabWatch (ailabwatch.org/blog/model-e...), }
In non-AI stuff: Hirohito’s youngest brother was an anti-war activist and jewish studies professor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahit...